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Chart shapes

Locomotive

A locomotive chart populates about two-thirds of the wheel with one empty 120 degree arc, so the bodies form a running train with a leading edge driving toward the gap. In the Jones taxonomy this is the forward-moving, self-driven personality with one explicit deficit that becomes the engine of achievement, a sense of lack that powers a lifelong drive. The gift is momentum, practicality, and the determination to fill what is missing. The cost is restlessness and a drivenness that rarely rests. The work is letting the empty space motivate without ruling you. At your best you are a self-propelling force that gets where it is going.

Sources

  • Jones, The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation (1941)Defines the chart shape in the Jones distribution taxonomy and its core temperament.
  • Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the whole-chart shape as the gestalt of how the bodies are spread.
  • Oken, Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (1980)Gives the accessible reading of the Jones chart-shape personality.